Southern College System & Southern College
Dr. Ray L. BeltonDr. Ray L. Belton
Dr. Ray L. Belton’s retirement as Southern College (Baton Rouge, La.) System president and Southern College and A&M School chancellor is efficient fall 2022. In 2015, he turned the primary particular person to carry each the president and chancellor positions. Underneath his management there have been a number of new applications and strategic initiatives carried out systemwide to extend effectivity, increase enrollment, strengthen educating and studying, improve know-how, enhance scholar success, develop fundraising, and improve alumni engagement.
Japanese New Mexico College
Dr. Patrice Caldwell
Together with her retirement efficient July 1, Dr. Patrice Caldwell concludes 42 years at Japanese New Mexico College (ENMU), the place she led the launch of applications like ENMU’s Freshman Seminar. “Above all the pieces, a president should maintain college students first — their wants, their schooling and their success because the establishment’s central, animating ardour,” says Caldwell, who has been president of ENMU and chancellor of the ENMU System since 2020.
Spelman School
Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell
The tenth president of Spelman School, a ladies’s faculty in Georgia that boasts the best four-year commencement price of any HBCU and a six-year commencement price larger than the nationwide common, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell will retire June 30 after main the school by way of the worldwide pandemic and overseeing transformative change. Since Campbell turned president in 2015, the school has seen main investments in tutorial applications, know-how infrastructure, and the renewal of vital services on campus. The Nationwide Science Basis notes that Spelman is the main producer of Black ladies scientists. Throughout her presidency, the school surpassed its capital marketing campaign aim to lift $250 million in 4 years; the endowment is now virtually $500 million.
College of Richmond
Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher
The primary Black president of the College of Richmond in Virginia, Dr. Ronald A. Crutcher served as president from 2015 to 2021. He stepped down in August 2021 and served as a guide this tutorial yr. He plans to return as school in fall 2023. Throughout his presidency, Crutcher elevated skilled growth sources for school, together with applications on tutorial management. The college’s nationwide fame grew with its 2022 U.S. Information & World Report rating of twenty second among the many nation’s prime liberal arts schools.
Penn School of Know-how
Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour
Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour has spent her complete 45-year profession in larger schooling on the Pennsylvania School of Know-how in Williamsport. She’s going to retire in June 2022 after 24 years as president. “Our graduates depart us with a level and a head begin on their futures, and so they could by no means know the way a lot they impacted our lives within the course of,” Gilmour says. When she introduced her retirement final yr, she introduced plans for a legacy fundraising marketing campaign to spend money on college students.
Indiana College East
Dr. Kathryn Girten
In July 2013, Dr. Kathryn Girten joined Indiana College as the primary lady to function chancellor of the Indiana College East campus in Richmond. She retires June 30. Underneath Girten’s management, the IU East campus has had file enrollment, enchancment in scholar retention and four-year and six-year commencement charges, file numbers of graduates, and elevated scholar range.
College of Pennsylvania
Dr. Amy Gutmann
Dr. Amy Gutmann served because the president of the College of Pennsylvania from 2004 till Feb. 8, when she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate because the U.S. Ambassador to Germany. At the moment, she was the longest-serving president in College of Pennsylvania historical past. A primary-generation faculty scholar, Gutmann greater than doubled the variety of low-income and first-generation college students at Penn. International engagement was additionally a major a part of her presidency, together with the creation of Perry World Home on campus.
Hampton College
Dr. William R. Harvey
In 1978, Dr. William R. Harvey turned down provides of management positions at different establishments to just accept the presidency of Hampton College, a non-public HBCU in Virginia that struggled on the time. He noticed the chance to make a distinction and put the college on a stable path to the long run. When he retires June 30, he leaves a college with robust teachers and daring graduates making an impression on this planet. Amongst his accomplishments are 29 new buildings; 92 new tutorial levels, together with 12 doctoral applications; 4 satellites at the moment in house; a state-of-the-art climate antenna that may detect storms as much as 2,000 miles away; the biggest free-standing proton beam most cancers middle on this planet; and an endowment over $300 million. “The formulation for any success that I’ve had is predicated on 5 priorities: character traits of honesty, integrity, respect, trustworthiness and good private habits; excessive requirements and values; a superb work ethic; service to others; and appreciating and using the staff strategy,” says Harvey.
Talladega School
Dr. Billy C. Hawkins
Final yr, Talladega School, Alabama’s first personal traditionally Black faculty, introduced that Dr. Billy C. Hawkins would retire as president efficient June 30. When Hawkins turned president of Talladega in 2008, the school had lower than 300 college students. He’s credited with stabilizing the school’s funds, rising fundraising, restarting athletic applications, reopening historic Swayne Corridor, beautifying the campus, and increasing tutorial choices. Enrollment was at an historic excessive of 1,300 college students in 2022.
Bemidji State College
Dr. Religion C. Hensrud
On June 30, Dr. Religion C. Hensrud leaves Bemidji State College and Northwest Technical School in Minnesota after 5 years within the presidency. “As larger schooling leaders, presidents have the flexibility to positively impression our college students and our communities by way of the applications we develop and the methods we undertake,” says Hensrud. “We should undertake this important work with nice resolve as we search to draw, retain and graduate college students from numerous backgrounds, and guarantee our college students are mirrored within the range of the employees and college who serve them.”
Livingstone School
Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins, Sr.
Dr. Jimmy R. Jenkins, Sr., retires July 1 from Livingstone School, a non-public, traditionally Black faculty in Salisbury, N.C., after 16 years of service. The self-proclaimed “college students’ president,” typically discovered on campus greeting college students, leaves his signature Summer time Bridge program that’s designed to arrange college-bound college students with lower than a 2.0 GPA to make a profitable transition from highschool to varsity by way of an intensive, six-week tutorial reinforcement program.
Cuyahoga Group School
Dr. Alex Johnson
“Tri-C holds boundless potential and has sensible, proficient and passionate folks to proceed transferring it ahead,” says Dr. Alex Johnson, who served 9 years as president of Cuyahoga Group School, which has websites all through Northeast Ohio. Throughout his time as president, the school skilled elevated commencement charges and enrollment, the results of investments in workforce coaching, capital enhancements, and applications serving people in low-income and distressed areas.
West Virginia College Institute of Know-how
Carolyn Lengthy
In April, West Virginia College Institute of Know-how President Carolyn Lengthy introduced her plan to retire in December. The previous Title I instructor and principal assumed the function in January 2011. She was tapped to function interim chancellor of the Increased Schooling Coverage Fee in 2018-19, earlier than returning to the presidency. She was instrumental within the college’s transfer to its new Beckley campus. Underneath her management, the enrollment of WVU Tech has grown and new tutorial applications have been added.
San Diego Mesa School
Dr. Pamela T. Luster
Dr. Pamela T. Luster retires June 30 from San Diego Mesa School, a public neighborhood faculty in California, the place she has served as president since 2011. Throughout her presidency, the school efficiently launched fairness applications, a bachelor’s diploma program, and a number of different tutorial applications in addition to received a number of athletics titles. The faculty’s academic and services grasp plan, Mesa2030, has additionally been developed.
Amherst School
Dr. Biddy Martin
The primary lady to function president of Amherst School, Dr. Biddy Martin has been within the place since June 2011, the school’s longest serving president within the final 50 years. Throughout Martin’s presidency 123 new tenure-line school members have been employed, 35% of whom are folks of colour. The faculty employed its first chief range, fairness, and inclusion officer and established the inaugural range, fairness, and inclusion workplace. After a yr’s sabbatical, Martin plans to return to the school as a school member.
Affiliation of Public and Land-grant Universities 
Peter McPherson
Peter McPherson
After greater than 16 years as president of the Washington, D.C.-based Affiliation of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), Peter McPherson will retire in September. “I’m grateful for the entire experiences and accomplishments we’ve achieved collectively as a public college neighborhood,” says McPherson. He expanded the scope and effectiveness of APLU’s advocacy work and initiated grant-funded work in partnership with members to equitably advance the schooling, analysis, and engagement missions of public and land-grant universities.
Our Girl of the Lake College
Dr. Diane E. Melby
Annual fundraising greater than doubled through the presidency of Dr. Diane E. Melby, who retires July 15 after seven years on the helm of Our Girl of the Lake College in San Antonio, Texas, an Hispanic Serving Establishment. “The challenges to educating marginalized and first-generation college students are numerable and but, within the presidency there’s not solely the chance to remodel particular person lives, there’s the chance to remodel our nation,” says Melby.
Joliet Junior School
Dr. Judy Mitchell
Dr. Judy Mitchell went to Joliet Junior School in Joliet, Sick., within the mid-Nineteen Nineties as a returning grownup scholar however is concluding her lengthy affiliation with the school as its president. “A very powerful factor I might do because the president was pay attention — listening and dealing collaboratively with staff, college students and neighborhood companions,” says Mitchell. “Everybody must be heard and have that chance.” Every year below her management, the school’s monetary staff earned the Authorities Finance Officers Affiliation’s Distinguished Funds Presentation Award.
Warren Wilson School
Dr. Lynn Morton
Dr. Lynn Morton, the primary lady president of Warren Wilson School, ended the 2021-22 tutorial yr and 5 years as president of the school in Swannanoa, N.C. At Warren Wilson, Morton led a number of initiatives designed to extend undergraduate enrollment, together with increasing athletics. Efforts to extend entry included two tuition-free scholarship applications and record-setting fundraising efforts.
Whitman School
Dr. Kathleen Murray
As president of Whitman School in Walla Walla, Wash., Dr. Kathleen Murray helped considerably develop fundraising, which elevated monetary help and contributed to the constructing of Cleveland Commons and Stanton Corridor. “I’m most happy with the progress now we have made on monetary entry and affordability for our college students, rising our monetary help price range by greater than 50% during the last seven years,” says Murray.
California State College, Monterey Bay
Dr. Eduardo Ochoa
Dr. Eduardo Ochoa retires on June 30, after 39 years within the California State College System and 10 years as president of California State College, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). Over the past decade, greater than $119 million in personal help was raised, together with the first-time $100 million complete fundraising marketing campaign. He deftly led school and employees in a fast pivot to digital instruction firstly of the pandemic and oversaw the protocols that enabled CSUMB to return to in-person studying for spring 2022.
Massachusetts Institute of Know-how
Dr. L. Rafael Reif
President of the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how (MIT) for a decade and a member of the school since 1980, Dr. L. Rafael Reif steps down on the finish of the yr. Already a world-renowned establishment, MIT gained better world recognition below Reif’s management. He propelled efforts to prioritize the well being and wellbeing of scholars, notably through the pandemic and time of political turmoil. He oversaw the revitalization of MIT’s bodily campus and neighboring Kendall Sq. and positioned the institute for a thriving future.
Coconino Group School
Dr. Colleen Smith
Together with her retirement after six years as president, Dr. Colleen Smith of Coconino Group School in Flagstaff, Ariz., concludes 41 years of working in neighborhood schools. “Coconino Group School is superb, at all times undertaking a lot with so little, and I genuinely imagine that’s as a result of our colleagues all throughout the school are dedicated to serving college students and making a distinction of their lives,” says Smith.
Cottey School
Dr. Jann Weitzel
After serving because the president of Cottey School, a non-public ladies’s faculty in Nevada, Mo., since 2015, Dr. Jann Weitzel is retiring June 30. Weitzel has been a powerful supporter of the worth of a ladies’s faculty based on robust liberal arts and sciences. She has overseen progress within the tutorial diploma choices and the athletic program in addition to growth of the campus. Throughout her presidency, there have been appreciable renovations and additions, together with a psychology lab, an Apple Mac laptop lab and the Inventory Buying and selling Lab/Esports Area.
Butte School
Dr. Samia Yaqub
Dr. Samia Yaqub retires June 30 as superintendent/president of Butte School, a part of the California Group Faculties System, after greater than 37 years with the school, six in her present function. She has been instrumental in main range, fairness, and inclusion initiatives. Throughout her presidency, in 2016, Yaqub helped go Measure J, a $190 million bond measure. Underneath her management, the school has grown its footprint and damaged floor on a brand new Glenn Heart facility that can open this fall.